CASL

Few jobs are more massive than that of building a nuclear power plant, a project that takes years and billions of dollars to complete. But once a new plant is …
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CASL staff created the annual Education Council Summer Student Workshop, which took place at ORNL June 17–19.
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Several OLCF Staff Members were recognized at the November 7 Awards Night Event.
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A team representing Westinghouse Electric Company and the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors (CASL), a Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Hub led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received an International Data Corporation HPC Innovation Excellence Award for applied simulation on Titan.
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Researchers with CASL are simulating fuel rod stabilization on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer.
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Ernest Moniz, the newly confirmed secretary of energy, visited ORNL and the OLCF on June 3.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently made a quick visit to ORNL, where he got a briefing on advanced computer simulations of nuclear energy and even took a turn experiencing the 3D environment of a virtual reactor’s nuclear core.
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Through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), allocations were awarded to five projects with an emphasis on high-risk, high-impact research related to DOE’s energy mission. They are already providing insight into important efforts such as advancing the clean-energy agenda and understanding the Earth’s climate.
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